DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF IRRITATED BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS) OR ONCE MORE ABOUT DUSTBIN

Abstract

The clinical criteria of the irritated bowel syndrome are well-defined and well-known. But often practicing doctors come to this judgement without support of criteria. Meanwhile diagnosis of chronic colitis is out of fashion, is not established by clinicians to prevent their acknowledgement as doctors lagging behind modern trends. This leads to hyperdiagnosis of one state and hypodiagnosis of the other state and, as a consequence, to the  erroneous therapeutic approach. The case further demonstrates an erroneous diagnosis and consequences to which it led.